Spotfire® Web Client User Guide

Showing/hiding the legend

The legend provides information that helps the viewer identify what is represented in a visualization. You can decide whether or not the legend should be visible.

About this task

An example of a legend is shown below:

Show the legend when the information within it is necessary for interpreting the visualization. Hide the legend when you must use as much as possible of the screen estate for the visualizations themselves.

Tip: You can decide what information to include, and the position of the legend within the visualization.

Procedure

  1. Place the cursor on the visualization.
    Icons are shown in the upper right corner of the visualization.
    Visualization title icons
  2. Click Legend icon to toggle between showing and hiding the legend.
    Tip: You can also show or hide the legend from the visualization properties.

Results

Which information is available in the legend by default varies with the visualization type. For example, the legend of a pie chart will show which column determines the size of the pie sectors, and the legend of a scatter plot will show if a column has been used to define the marker size or marker shape, and so on. You can edit all such properties by clicking the respective column selectors in the legend.

When multiple data tables are available in the analysis, the legend for all new visualizations will automatically show a data table selector where you can switch data table.

You can also change the colors used in the visualization directly from the legend. Click the color circle in the legend to open a color palette where you can select another color. Clicking a shape icon under Shape by similarly allows you to switch shape.